Sport: First Last, but Maybe Not Always

Unbeaten and untied, Clemson still has not had a perfect season exactly.
The Tigers' record was 12-0. They won the Orange Bowl over Nebraska
22-15 New Year's night, and the wire services anointed them champions
of all college football. But a National Collegiate Athletic Association
probe of Clemson recruiting methods is in progress, so nobody knows
whether to cheer just yet.

Except, of course, for the shouts of triumph coming from the ordinarily
quiet community of Clemson in South Carolina, where people paint their
faces with orange cat's feet. The Tigers' bowl performance gave...